Monthly Lovescopes November 2018

Welcome to the love jungle, astro babes. November 2018 serves up some super potent cosmic carnal connections that ask us to get wet and wild with our tenderest emotions, and recommit to curiously colliding with every flavor of partnership. Brought to you by the three water babes, Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces, and a healthy dose of untamed pony Sagittarius, it’s a love affair that’s ripe and ready to ask big questions, make sweeping gestures, and dance on, way past the break of dawn.

The zodiac’s water signs often get pigeonholed as overly emotional, weepy clingers. But this classification is merely evidence of our societal aversion towards deep feeling, profound connection, and the messiness of being alive. When placed outside of a patriarchal context, Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces show themselves as our fiercest cosmic lovers. With the Sun in Scorpio until the 22nd, the North Node of destiny shifting into Cancer on November 6th, and Mars entering Pisces on November 15th, where it will stay for the rest of 2018, we’re invited to get raw and real with the full extent of our humanness, and to let the liberation of bottled emotions elevate both our partnerships and our relationship to our sweet selves.

In other major cosmic news, Sagittarius’ bombastic gifts are served up on a silver platter early this year, as consciousness-expanding Jupiter enters the pony sign on November 8th, where it’ll stay for the next year. And with Venus stationing direct in Libra on the 16th, and Mercury in Sag stationing retro that same day, it’s a potent month for releasing old stories that have kept our hearts small and dry and fearful. What tall tales about your own lovability are you ready to let ride on the technicolor wind?

November reminds us that the stakes are high, and that we’ve got only one shot in these particular bodies. So love harder, love deeper, and love it all, astro babes. You have every right to your softness, your steeliness, and everything in between...

SCORPIO :: SCORPIO RISING

Love Letter: I believe in life after love.

In Your Heart: Cue up the 90s dance music, Scorpio. This month’s cosmic heart medicine is brought to you by Cher’s “Believe,” and you’re coming into deep communion with questions of presence, hope, and faith. Where has going hard started to harden your heart? Trust that you don’t have to pull back or water down any of your notorious intensity. You’re just invited to realize that scorched earth and funeral pyres aren’t the only way to end things. More than any other sign, you’re in a mastery with the full range of love affairs, and the fullest flower of birth, death, and rebirth cycles. As expansive Jupiter makes its last stand in your sign, ask yourself where you are ready to come alive again and risk intimacy? This could be in an existing partnership, a leap towards a new affair, or simply with your precious self. Show up in all your glory, Scorpio, and let the lights intermingle with the darkness.

In Your Spirit: Let this energy of life cycles infuse your spirit as well. You are the snake, the dragon, the phoenix, and so much more. Look around you and take your inspiration from every single life form. There is so much medicine available in the ephemeral; from cut flowers, to the daily cycle of sunrise and sunset, there are a million tiny deaths each day that remind us to let our cells light up fully to this incredible chance to be breathing in these bodies. You’re bolstered by fellow water signs Cancer and Pisces this month, and November 7th’s New Moon in your sign sets the tone for releasing your radical sensitivity. Sensitize yourself to this world Scorpio. Let it all affect you and change you. Let it all in.

SAGITTARIUS :: SAGITTARIUS RISING

Love Letter: Seeking my heart’s “why” unleashes the adventure.

In Your Heart: Dearest wild pony, you’re ready to ride again. With Jupiter and Mercury shifting into your sign, and the latter stationing retrograde starting November 16th, you’re ready to ask some big questions about your relationship to love. But rather than all nighters in the love library, let this feel like a profound connection with your very purpose here on earth. You are the seeker, Sag. The unfolder. Your “why” leads you to wilder and stranger places than the rest of us. Trust that you don’t actually need to find the answer right now. You can inquire about the purpose of your relationships. You can sweetly ask questions of lovers and of your own heart. But be more interested in the pathways these questions open up than the endgame, Sag. There is no endgame right now. There is only the road rising to meet you.

In Your Spirit: This climate of deep seeking infuses your spirit this month, Sag, and you can use the influence of watery planets to lend your fire a particular flavor of magic you may feel has been lost. Let Christmas come early right now, no matter your belief systems or relationship to this holiday. Get dazzled by the deep mysteries. Ponder the origin of flowers. The why and what of birds. Gaze out your window for hours and wander without aim through the streets. You don’t have to make or do anything at all. Your very being is more than enough, Sag. Treat yourself like a physic medium and open your channel wide to whatever spirit wants to inhabit you.

CAPRICORN :: CAPRICORN RISING

Love Letter: My heart’s inhabitants are invited guests.

In Your Heart: You are arguably the zodiac’s badass with the boundaries, Cappy, and this lifetime of love carries many lessons about limits, structure, and privacy. This month’s pack of watery planets shares this penchant for private dancing with you, bringing forward questions of discernment and selection. But while you’re policing the doors to your heart, stay very close to your heart itself, asking what blocks you’ve placed and guest lists you’ve written that could be amended. Receiving love and affection is one of the most difficult things you’re here to do, Cappy. And while you can open and close your heartspace at will, use this month to remember to find the openings. Alongside Scorpio, you’re the zodiac’s soul survivor, capable of life on the other side of the apocalypse. Remind yourself that amidst the ice and rain and wind, there’s also a ski lodge with a roaring hearth. And that hot chocolate is even tastier when it’s shared.

In Your Spirit: Despite the relative absence of earth planets in the sky right now, there’s an earthy flavor to your spiritual experience this November. Water planets are lubricating your cracked surfaces and turning them into pliable mud. Sagittarius energy is lighting the bonfire and reminding you of your animal nature. While we sometimes place you in the boardroom, obsessed with achievement and ambition, you’re more appropriately situating in the hunting lodge, Capricorn. You’re cardinal earth. You move mountains and make magic out of the precious, pragmatic material and matter that graces our planet. Remind yourself of this mission right now, and let being in a body feel priceless and delicious.

AQUARIUS :: AQUARIUS RISING

Love Letter: Healthy obsessions catalyze heart opening.

In Your Heart: Sweet, cerebral Aquarius. This month’s lessons are brought to you by the zodiac’s deepest watery feelers. But before you let this trip to the ocean floor strike fears of shark bait in your intellectual heart, consider how far you’ve come in expressing your feelings. And trust that you don’t have to do it in one particular way. You can connect with another or share what’s inside with a gesture, a song, a dance move. Consider everything that exists beyond the verbal right now. And also pay attention to the value of your obsessions. While we sometimes think of obsession as unhealthy, there are primal drives inside your heart right now that want to be followed. Don’t regulate the gas stove knob on your passion, Aquarius. You deserve to let the water boil right over the top.

In Your Spirit: You’re the zodiac’s revolutionary, and no matter what your plans are for world shaking change, November wants you to reconnect with your capacity to catalyze transformation. Scorpio energy “squares” your sign, which means that it presents a delicious challenge that you feel deeply compelled to solve. It adds blood and guts to your anarchist desires, and reminds you to add a healthy sense of attachment to your causes, whatever they are. Let yourself be driven, Aquarius. Maybe even a little power hungry. Your hunger will uncover what you’re here to bring forward.

PISCES :: PISCES RISING

Love Letter: Giving my desires shape strengthens my love muscles.

In Your Heart: Mars’ shift into your sign is major, Little Mermaid. On the surface, this pairing seems a bit uncomfy. Mars is a phallic, penetrating, forward pushing, muscle car. And you, sweet Pisces, are stardust, ephemera, incense. Your formlessness allows us to dissolve the ego and give it up to a higher love. Yet this planetary collision is here to teach you something about form. Get curious about where you can solidify things. Stake a claim on a relationship. Ask for more and ask clearly. Draw something to a close that is begging for a new beginning on the other side. Bringing romantic dreams down to earth doesn’t have to feel like a rude awakening, Pisces. Instead, let it taste like a heart-shaped cake that’s bolstered by the contours of its pan.

In Your Spirit: You are a key piece of this month’s super potent water trinity, Pisces, and the time is ripe for remembering that you have every right to fight for your touchy feelies. Let your intuition fly in the face of the rational. Silence the haters who question just where you’re getting your information or how you’re making your decisions. With Sagittarius energy in a challenging relationship to your sign, you’re asked to level up and commit to your intuitive hits and gut based beliefs. This is not the time for victim consciousness, Little Mermaid. It’s time to ride on the crest of the wave, Pisces, carried by the force of your feelings.

ARIES :: ARIES RISING

Love Letter: Hands off the wheel is the only way to feel.

In Your Heart: Once upon a time, dear fire starter, Aries and Scorpio had the same rulership. Both powered by Mars energy, these two signs fought battle in the world and the underworld, respectively. But when Pluto was discovered, Scorpio shifted its rulership, and this month’s energy asks you to consider your relationship to Pluto as well. Despite its rep as a ground shaking, demon awakening badass, there’s a softening that has to happen to facilitate the heart evolutions it asks of us. Where can you lubricate your relationship to love, Aries? Loosen your grip and let yourself be carried by the strength of your feelings rather than wielding them like a weapon or a demand? Demands cause you to grip, sweet one. And the more we grip, the less control we actually have. Turn your heart loose to a higher law, Aries.

In Your Spirit: With Jupiter and Mercury shifting into fellow fire sign, Sagittarius, you’re being invited to recapture your sense of risk tolerance, Aries. You are the zodiac’s beginning. The start of the wheel of the year. And this sense of beginning has to come out of a void, as we leap without looking and trust that we’ll be caught. You’ve come so far, dear Aries. You’ve gathered so many resources. Where can you prepare less? Prove less? Do less, and leap more? Let this month remind you that you have every right to be here, and that whatever is making your pulse quicken is worthy of pursuit.

TAURUS :: TAURUS RISING

Love Letter: The pursuit of pleasure doesn’t mean the absence of pain.

In Your Heart: There’s a reckoning and a release available to you this month, Taurus, as your “opposite” sign of Scorpio faces you directly and asks for your attention. Both you and Scorpio know a thing or two about the pursuit of desire. The difference between you, is that Scorpio opens wide to receive every impulse, while you sometimes have a tendency to turn from the creepy crawlies and favor the flower. How can you accommodate a greater range of experience in your love affairs right now, Taurus? Can you find pleasure in the fierce passion of a necessary fight? A certain beauty, even in loss, as it liberates the path towards a new receiving? Can you dig into impulses you’d usually push away? You’ve been in a profound mastery with the concept of transformation this year, and November wants to remind you that surrendering to the shifts is the only way to dance.

In Your Spirit: As shifts occur and endings dawn, can you hold space for any moments of clearing, Taurus? You’re an earth based, sensation seeking sign, but sometimes you forget about the nuances and subtleties of the slightest shifts in emotion and motion, seeing only what’s here and what’s been taken away. This month gifts you the chance to reconceive of “losses” as “finds,” and to let there be absence and a delicious sense of emptiness without having to rush to fill it. Let anything in your life that’s leaving create an expansive field in its wake, and wait steadily and curiously to see what seeds want to land in all this new soil.

GEMINI :: GEMINI RISING

In Your Heart: This month’s trinity of water signs brings deep healing energy to your frayed mental edges, Gemini. Let your heart slow down and languish in the natural hot springs within. Where have you been rushing for an answer? Fiercely pursuing partners to distract from your own depths? While your butterfly wings often lead you towards a delicious sampling of versatile experiences, November wants you to relinquish some of this breadth obsession for more depth. Settle in to a groove with whatever is here for your heart. You can handle more “discomfort” than you know right now, and on the other side of this sense of scrambling is a solid gold gift of your own worth. What’s been pulling at your heartstrings that you’ve ignored? What’s been left unsaid? With your ruler, Mercury, going retro this month, it’s time to ponder the big questions, and to do so through a healthy, healing dose of silence.

In Your Spirit: Sagittarius is your “polar” opposite sign, and this month’s activation of Jupiter and Mercury in Sag wants you to consider incorporating this end of the polarity. While you’re the zodiac’s street smart city dweller, gathering the immediate info on hand and transmitting it through the telephone wires, Sag energy is the cosmic nomad, panning out across the open plains in search of a higher truth. What larger beliefs are guiding your actions right now, Gemstone? What is your credo, mantra, or life code? Take some moments of sweet retreat to recommune with this bigger picture, and let discovering your grand “why” become your only mission.

CANCER :: CANCER RISING

Love Letter: I commit to the course of my feelings, wherever they may lead.

In Your Heart: This month’s shift of the North Node of destiny into your sign is epic, Cancer. On a collective level, the North Node asks us to synch up with our calling, and to bring forward what we’re here to bring, no matter the perceived cost. And you, water babe, are here to bring the ocean tides. The strength of your feelings and your own capacity to validate them, despite external noise. And your capacity to take responsibility for them, without having to constantly ask others to carry them for you. Where can you mature in your relationships, cleaning out any dusty corners and hidden motivations? What have you been avoiding that must be dealt with directly in your partnerships? Smoke it all out of its holes, Cancer. You’ll find your greatest strength in stripping down and shining the light.

In Your Spirit: As Jupiter and Mercury shift into Sagittarius, they form what’s called an “inconjunct” to your sign. This is a deliciously challenging aspect, Cancer, and it asks you to face up to things about this sign that might feel frightening at first. Sagittarius is wide open plains and wild looseness. This might send you back into your shell, but trust that it’s urging you to build your house on your back, hermit crab style. How can you find security in the inbetween, Cancer? Your feelings are your home, and you can return to them privately in any moment, even when you’re “exposed” to the world. Build a little hut in your soul and carry it with you wherever you go.

LEO :: LEO RISING

Love Letter: Momentum is magic and I’m ready to leap.

In Your Heart: As the North Node shifts out of your sign this month, where it’s been hanging since May of 2017, you’re asked to bring a powerful heart cycle to a crescendo and a close. Look back on all of your loves, dear Leo (a favorite past time of yours already). Consider each one as its own, precious lifeworld, a little biodome of heartbeats and colors and distinctive flavors. Let this process bolster your trust in your experience, and your capacity to make some bold leaps towards new joy this November. Scorpio energy “squares” your sign, which means it presents a challenge. And that delicious challenge is that of blending your sunlight with moonlight, and remembering that every part of this wild ride is absolutely worth it. You don’t have to assess whether a partnership or impulse is good or bad right now, glitter kitten. You just have to roll down the windows and feel all the weather on your glowing skin.

In Your Spirit: Pump up the volume and plump up those lips, Leo. With fellow fire sign Sagittarius running part of the cosmic show this month, it’s all systems go on your visions and dreams. More than any other sign, you have the capacity to infuse poetry into the most seemingly mundane experience, reminding the rest of us of the succulence and sweet sensation of high drama. Dramatize your very existence this month, Leo. Let every small moment feel epic, loaded with meaning and mythology. Your capacity for narrative is your greatest superpower right now.

VIRGO :: VIRGO RISING

Love Letter: Creating a heart-shaped box strengthens my loving core.

In Your Heart: While you’re a sign that’s given over to discernment and sorting, this process is a dynamic one, and bolstering your boundaries and operating in allegiance to your internal heartbeat is a lifelong love affair. This month’s medicine from Scorpio energy wants you to soothe any fears that you have around drawing hard lines and making tough calls in your affairs. Scorpio teaches us about self-protection, and when out of alignment this can border on paranoia. But the lesson for you right now, sweet Virgo, is to listen in to the subtle messages that sometimes urge you to cut cords, express anger, and lay down the love law. These acts will actually strengthen your capacity to love by soothing any hidden resentments. Toughen up to soften in brand new ways.

In Your Spirit: Primal energies are swirling for you this month, as Scorpio and Sagittarius bring out the jungle cat in you. While you’re sometimes written off as a mental, Mercury-based sign, you’re actually a fully embodied earth babe. Remember this earthy, body based nature this November, Virgo. Tune in to the subtle shifts in your internal systems. The urges that come from your very blood. Treat your body like a hidden oasis or sanctuary. When the world seems harsh, tuck inside it and fall asleep listening to your own, vital heartbeat.

LIBRA :: LIBRA RISING

Love Letter: I face my heart’s fears with curious compassion.

In Your Heart: With your ruler, Venus, traveling retro since October 5th, you’ve been in a powerful dance with the space between your romantic ideals and your reality, Libra. And with Venus stationing direct in your sign on November 16th, you’re now ready to come out of the darkness and make good on the promise of all that you’ve learned. What have you been able to see clearly in your partnerships? What has that taught you about what you truly desire and need? Any cracks and fissures have exposed places where you can turn your attention to repair and restoration, Libra. Facing up to some of the not so pretty realities of your love affairs and relationship patterns gives you the courage to change them. Wield your sword and ride your white horse for all the right reasons.

In Your Spirit: With a pack of watery planets running the show this month, you’re being invited to consider your own thirsts and sources of hydration, Libra. This means soothing some of the endless analysis and careful consideration, and following the tides of those deeper feeling currents. Feelings are irrational and messy and wild and rhythmic. Let yourself dance with them in a way that precedes words or categorization. With Jupiter and Mercury in Sagittarius making a supportive sextile aspect to your sign, you can find liberation and loosening in this precognitive work. Follow your impulses. Get fired up on feelings. And trust that you don’t have to explain yourself one bit.